NFDRS - National Fire Danger Rating System

Course Description:

491 is an intermediate level technical exposure to the National Fire Danger Rating System. Essentially you have learned to drive.

Advanced NFDRS is the next level of analytical instruction that focuses on the role of fire danger rating in resource decision making, through development of a fire danger rating operating plan.

Participants will be provided the skills to analyze and troubleshoot fire danger rating from the fire weather station scale to multiple fire danger rating areas. Essentially you will learn to fly.The course will provide individuals the technical skills to serve as instructors for geographic area level courses for all wildland fire agencies using NFDRS.

Advanced NFDRS is a national level course. As such, participants can expect long days, evening and weekend work. In order to receive credit for course, participants must stay through entire course. Students will need to complete pre-course work and a pre-course test consisting of approximately 6 hours.

Objectives:

• Review NFDRS design and its relationship to other fire management systems and processes.
• Through the development of an operating plan, demonstrate a working knowledge of the process required to design, setup, and manage a fire danger rating system.
• Relate NFDRS outputs to some measure of fire business and develop skills to adapt NFDRS analysis to the local unit.
• Demonstrate how fire danger rating supports geographic area and national decision-making.
• Design and validate a decision model for short and long-term operations involving NFDRS, fire danger climatology and fire management planning systems.
• Introduce new NFDRS related technology as it becomes available.
• Demonstrate techniques to analyze outputs of NFDRS programs to identify errors, and troubleshoot system problems.
• Provide background information from which participants can support geographic area NFDRS training.

 

Target Group:

The target audience includes individuals:

• Responsible for resource analysis, decision support and decision making based on outputs from National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) at the local/state/national level and corresponding positions;
• Responsible for Intelligence, Predictive Services, and/or Fire Weather Forecasting;
• Responsible for providing technical support and oversight for NFDRS;
• Who will become geographic area NFDRS instructors;
• With a passion to become the next generation to carry NFDRS forward.

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

This course is managed by a National Steering Committee.

Prerequisites:

• Have successfully completed S-491.
• Completes pre-course work and pre-course test.
• Pre-course work will be posted on the NAFRI web site early November, preceeding the course. It will take approximately 6 hours to complete.

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